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or white might get better with age, the Canucks and Flames believe they can only
get better with youth. The predominantly young clubs, who both missed the
playoffs last season, will begin to test that theory Wednesday night as the
Canucks host the Flames in the National Hockey League season opener for both
teams.“We are really young,” Vancouver center Bo Horvat, who was named an
alternate captain Tuesday, told reporters. “We know where we are at. We know
what people are thinking and saying about us, that we are going to finish at the
bottom of the league. But that is great motivation to prove them wrong and a
chance to prove ourselves this year.”Article continues below ...Horvat is at the
forefront of a Canucks squad that will try to make due without retired Swedish
superstars Daniel and Henrik Sedin. And
Custom Philadelphia Flyers Jerseys , the Canucks do have plenty to prove after going 1-6 in the preseason.The most notable — and only pure new — young
addition is center Elias Pettersson, 19, the team’s 2017 first-round draft
choice, who was named the most valuable player in both the regular season and
playoffs while guiding Vaxjo to the Swedish Elite League championship last
season.Pettersson produced 24 goals and 32 assists in 44 games in Sweden in
2018-19. Canucks management will be ecstatic if he can come close to producing
similar production in 82 NHL contests.But Pettersson, a likely rookie of the
year candidate, is trying not to put too much pressure on himself after a strong
preseason.“I can only control what I do in the moment and not think what’s ahead
of me,” the 6-foot-2, 175-pound Pettersson told reporters. “(My game is) getting
better every day.”He will be the player without NHL experience in Vancouver’s
lineup Wednesday
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Tyler Motte opportunities to secure permanent jobs after placing veteran
forwards Sam Gagner and Darren Archibald on waivers earlier this week.“With
these (other) young kids coming (up through the farm system), this could happen
more and more,” general manager Jim Benning said in reference to veterans losing
their jobs.Meanwhile, the Flames will feature several new, mostly young faces
against the Canucks. Calgary’s newcomers include defenseman Noah Hanifin and
forward Elias Lindholm, who were acquired in the trade that sent rearguard
Dougie Hamilton and winger Michael Ferland to Carolina, and rookie forward
Dillon Dube and first-year defenseman Juuso Valimaki — draft picks who both
cracked the team’s roster and will be in the lineup Wednesday.“What (Dube and
Valimaki) are going to face (Wednesday) is the hardest competition they’ve ever
faced
Pittsburgh Penguins T-Shirts Authentic ,” Flames general manager Brad Treliving told Postmedia. “This is a real NHL game.”Dube, 19, who hails from the
Calgary-area town of Cochrane, Alta., expects that he and Valimaki will be able
to handle the hard going of the NHL regular season after they captained the
Canadian and Finnish world junior teams, respectively, last winter.“Especially
for me being from here, there’s going to be a lot of pressure
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organization.” WASHINGTON (AP) The Latest on the Washington Capitals‘ Stanley
Cup parade (all times local):2:30 p.m.Barry Trotz says the Capitals are going to
do it again, and T.J. Oshie led fans in a chant of ”back-to-back” at the rally
celebrating the Stanley Cup champions.Captain Alex Ovechkin fired up fans who
filled the National Mall down to the Washington Monument by reminding them that
he said at the start of the year they weren’t going to be as bad as some
thought. Then he and his teammates sang along to Queen’s ”We Are The Champions”
to complete the rally.—12:50 p.m.The Capitals’ Stanley Cup parade has ended with
a rally upcoming.Tens of thousands of fans lined the route along Constitution
Avenue, including hundreds on the steps of the national archives creating a sea
of red.The final bus with Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, Brooks Orpik, owner
Ted Leonsis and team president Dick Patrick also featured the Stanley Cup.Fans
along Constitution chanted, ”Raise the Cup!” and ”Ovi! Ovi! Ovi!”Ovechkin sat at
the front of the double-decker bus, alternating between resting his arms on the
trophy
Pittsburgh Penguins Hats Authentic , raising it, and drinking out of his blue Bud Light bottle.—11 a.m.The caravan is on the move for the start of the
Washington Capitals’ first Stanley Cup parade.More than 40 vehicles – buses and
convertibles carrying players and staff – began moving down 23rd Street toward
Constitution Avenue led by 30-plus police officers on motorcycles. The parade
officially begins at 17th and Constitution and ends at 7th and the National
Mall.Conn Smythe Trophy winner Alex Ovechkin and owner Ted Leonsis have the
Stanley Cup at the tail end of the parade.—10 a.m.Capitals players, staff
members and their families are on their way to the start of the parade route
after taking a team photo at Capital One Arena. Fans lined the exit to the arena
chanting and cheering as players boarded several buses to get to Constitution
Avenue.A police escort cleared the way for the buses to get through D.C. traffic
as throngs of people waited along the route and at the National Mall, where a
rally will cap the celebration.—6 a.m.The Stanley Cup-champion Capitals will
celebrate the city’s first major four pro sports championship in 26 years with a
parade down Constitution Avenue.It’s the first sports parade in Washington since
the NFL’s Redskins in 1992. Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom and his teammates
will travel from 17th to 7th on Constitution to a rally on the National Mall by
the afternoon.They’ll be joined by four F-16 Fighting Falcons from the D.C. Air
National Guard who will perform a flyover about 25 minutes in. Season-ticket
holders who have remained from the team’s eight-win inaugural season in 1974-75,
high school marching bands and the D.C. fire department pipes and drums will be
among those participating.—More Stanley Cup coverage:
https://apnews.com/tag/StanleyCupFinals
